This time the roundup is a little but too late, but nevertheless it’s there! I spent lots of time working for customers and also the European Soccer Championship is pulling at my nerves. There are also ongoing Netlabel activities here in Cologne, thanks to the initiative mo. from Phlow.net / Phlow Magazine. So here we go:

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The biggest highlight this month clearly was the Firefox 3 World Record attempt. Millions of people downloaded the browser and the servers were only the first two or three hours unavailable. At least there were over 8 million downloads and Europe, especially Germany seems to have many Firefox-fans on board. Here we had 1.1 million downloads, which comes second place right after the USA with 3.9 million. Right at the moment the people of Guinness review the World Record attempt.

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Over at the Independent Gaming Source Derek Yu made a report with many interesting links on game engines made with Microsoft Excel Sheets. This is really freaky stuff. Did you already know, that Microsoft developers itself did hide a secret proto-game in the 95-edition of Excel?

“Excel-native cell graphics”

Update: Lars from Gulli pointed me the link to this demo “Excellence“, made in Excel. Thanks! (Video here).

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Just some minutes ago I discovered this brilliant video of an upcoming German artists Alexander Marcus. The video is really, really good. Low cost, but highly effective. If you don’t speak German: He is singing about the land “Papaya”, where everyone is happy. You know that story…

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Let’s stay on that topic… Look at this beautiful screen- and user-interface design of this absolutely classic movie Dark Star! One of the best movies ever made.

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